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Christopher Fry quotes: What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

Christopher Fry quotes: The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

Christopher Fry quotes: It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

Christopher Fry quotes: Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

Christopher Fry quotes: The dark is light enough.

The dark is light enough.

Christopher Fry quotes: We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Christopher Fry quotes: Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

Christopher Fry quotes: The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

Christopher Fry quotes: I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Christopher Fry quotes: Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.

Your innocence is on at such a rakish angle it gives you quite an air of iniquity.

Christopher Fry quotes: It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Christopher Fry quotes: There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Christopher Fry quotes: In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Christopher Fry quotes: Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.

Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.

Christopher Fry quotes: Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Christopher Fry quotes: Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

Christopher Fry quotes: In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

Christopher Fry quotes: The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

Christopher Fry quotes: ReligionHas made an honest woman of the supernatural,And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

Religion
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

Christopher Fry quotes: My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

Christopher Fry quotes: Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

Christopher Fry quotes: Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Christopher Fry quotes: Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry quotes: We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.

We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.

Christopher Fry quotes: What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Christopher Fry quotes: How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

Christopher Fry quotes: In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry quotes: If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

Christopher Fry quotes: Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry quotes: One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

Christopher Fry quotes: How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Christopher Fry quotes: Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Christopher Fry quotes: The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

Christopher Fry quotes: How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

Christopher Fry quotes: Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry quotes: I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

Christopher Fry quotes: Equality is a mortuary word.

Equality is a mortuary word.